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competitive environment is different. in fact more favorable. so i think when you net all that out there's growth opportunities. >> of course in the last conference call you talked about the best companies in your industry generate as much as $450 million of cash flow or ev ebita. is it reasonable to expect you could get to that high a number? >> you don't have to if you create value. $450,000 per home past her year of ebita coming out of the best cable operators and charter is actually at the lowest end of that scale. so the up-front or up side that we have is bigger than anyone else's. but i think the whole industry has room to grow so i don't -- >> you still think the industry -- even though video subs are not growing anymore. zp video subs are not growing but they're stabilizing. data and voice is growing and i think video can grow again. the industry was stuck in an analog world and had to make a transition and it is not fully complete yet. but as these cable companies become all digital, a lot of spectrum is freed up so the capacity of the
competitive environment is different. in fact more favorable. so i think when you net all that out there's growth opportunities. >> of course in the last conference call you talked about the best companies in your industry generate as much as $450 million of cash flow or ev ebita. is it reasonable to expect you could get to that high a number? >> you don't have to if you create value. $450,000 per home past her year of ebita coming out of the best cable operators and charter is...
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in this low interest rate environment, this is the other big ticket item. >> how are people going to fund their purchases? you have an 11-year-old car, how are they funding the replacement of it? >> well, the availability of credit has improved dramatically over the last eight months or so. and we're even seeing people with bumps in their credit history, subprime borrowers, getting more acceptances of their car loans. and of course there are a lot of incentivized interest rates from the manufacturer's financing arms out there, as well. the overall softness in the european market and with japan in recession, we think we'll see likely more incentives from manufacture are ers for customer the coming months because they have capacity they're not using for those other market. so they will be targeting this u.s. market and the consumer is in a pretty good mood. part of that we believe is the stabilization of home prices which is the basic net egg for most middle class americans. >> it would seem whatever's going on where you are in washington not having an impact. why do you think that is?
in this low interest rate environment, this is the other big ticket item. >> how are people going to fund their purchases? you have an 11-year-old car, how are they funding the replacement of it? >> well, the availability of credit has improved dramatically over the last eight months or so. and we're even seeing people with bumps in their credit history, subprime borrowers, getting more acceptances of their car loans. and of course there are a lot of incentivized interest rates from...
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now, the difficulty is you have 70%, three out of four americans who saved it do not have enough for environment. lori: should average investors follow the institutions? >> yeah, you know, one of the things we are seeing is a lot of institutions have held off or have looked at managing risk and mitigating in their own portfolios. you are looking at this longer-term investing. writing to the store. looking at structures that allow you to mitigate risk and have better sleeping at night. you cannot fund a retirement by earning a half of a percent of 1% and a stable money market fund or bond. you will need to take some risk. sure. i was just going to come in with a risk. should i go risk on all the way and really go crazy and put in some, you know -- [talking over each other] >> it all depends on what your circumstances are. if you have some longer-term horizons, you should be looking out what type of risk you can look at in the portfolio. the big dynamic change has been risks moving from i do not want to miss the upside to a game i want to watch and protect my principal. it is about risk budgeting
now, the difficulty is you have 70%, three out of four americans who saved it do not have enough for environment. lori: should average investors follow the institutions? >> yeah, you know, one of the things we are seeing is a lot of institutions have held off or have looked at managing risk and mitigating in their own portfolios. you are looking at this longer-term investing. writing to the store. looking at structures that allow you to mitigate risk and have better sleeping at night. you...
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to the video environment. over the top scared everybody for a long time. there's a lot of questions. what was netflix going to do to its business model? how was content going to be monetized. with the tv everywhere infrastructure coming together, companies are more comfortable about how the world looks going forward. that's one of the big things holding back m&a. ceos were worried about buying a company and then having the world shift under their feet. a lot of those outlines are in place for doing more deals. >> right. in this world regardless of whether it's just a broad band connection or not, you say they will figure out a way to get paid. >> exactly. if you look at over the top distribution, that's been another way for content providers to sell content. if anything, it's been a new customer for them. >> sam, we're going to leave it there. looking forward to seeing you later face to face. i'll interview tom rutledge who runs charter. u.s. media conference being held the first three days of this week, i bel
to the video environment. over the top scared everybody for a long time. there's a lot of questions. what was netflix going to do to its business model? how was content going to be monetized. with the tv everywhere infrastructure coming together, companies are more comfortable about how the world looks going forward. that's one of the big things holding back m&a. ceos were worried about buying a company and then having the world shift under their feet. a lot of those outlines are in place...
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i think next year you'll be in a low growth environment again and really if you look at the economy, we're probably going back to the '90 style economy where you had 3%, 3.5% was really good growth. 2% growth which we're experiencing right now is pretty good. full employment might be 5.5, 6% like the old days. and i think with that being said, we've got to to get a little bit closer to those numbers to really have the economy start to take off. and i don't think we're that far in there. >> any much those numbers we would take. i don't know whether we are or not. wishful thinking for cantor. certainly would help you guys. why didn't you like fighting irish? >> they were on tv every week when i was a child and i'd like to see alabama win. >> alabama won last year. >> that's okay. all right. thank you. see you later. >>> in fact in some of the squawk sports news this morning, dallas beating philadelphia in sunday night nfl game. 38-33. tony romo threw three touchdown passes to break troy aikman's career franchise record. and the jets beat the cardinals 7-6. new york scoring the lone tou
i think next year you'll be in a low growth environment again and really if you look at the economy, we're probably going back to the '90 style economy where you had 3%, 3.5% was really good growth. 2% growth which we're experiencing right now is pretty good. full employment might be 5.5, 6% like the old days. and i think with that being said, we've got to to get a little bit closer to those numbers to really have the economy start to take off. and i don't think we're that far in there....